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...Chicago, Chris Longhini, Gogebic (Mich.) trapper and woodsman, remembered news-pictures he had seen of gangsters and photographers with tripod cameras. Seeing a surveyor pointing a theodolite his way Woodsman Longhini decided it was a cameraman mistaking him for a gangster. He charged, smashed the theodolite, punched the surveyor. In court he paid $400 for the ruined instrument...
Author Constantin-Weyer's past includes 14 eventful years in Canada as farmer, trapper, woodsman, horse-trader, fur-trader. His novel is less eventful than-his life, more in a spirit of stylistic brooding...
...PLAINS OF ABRAHAM-James Oliver Curwood-Doubleday Doran ($2). All that Robert W. Chambers has left unread or unsaid of colorful records concerning the Canadian Northwest, the late James Oliver Curwood has supplemented. Noble youth Jeems, son of a true French Canadian woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along...
...superior in the arts of the boy scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...
Died. Charles D. Skirdin, adventurous prototype of Novelist Owen Wister's famed "Virginian", redoubtable orphan, daredevil U. S. soldier, able woodsman; at a hospital in Reading...